Many Bernie Sanders Supporters Unmoved by Plea to Support Clinton

Sanders has encouraged his supporters to fall in line with Clinton

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Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., march in downtown, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

Undeterred by Sen. Bernie Sanders' plea for party unity behind Hillary Clinton, Sanders supporters chanting "Bernie or bust!" took to the streets under the hot sun Tuesday for more demonstrations on Day 2 of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Several hundred gathered around noon in a rally at City Hall with plans to join up in the afternoon with groups decrying police brutality and economic injustice. Together they planned to march the 4 miles down Broad Street to the convention site.

Speakers at the rally charged that Clinton cheated her way to the nomination with the complicity of the "corporate media."

Demonstrators said they weren't swayed by Sanders' speech at the convention Monday night, in which he said: "Based on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States. The choice is not even close."

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"He persuaded no one to vote for Hillary," said Greg Gregg, a retired 69-year-old nurse from Salem, Oregon. He said he intends to vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, quoting the turn-of-the-last-century socialist labor leader Eugene Debs as saying, "I'd rather vote for what I want and lose than what I don't want and win."

Meanwhile, Sanders again affirmed his support for Clinton during a meeting with California delegates, a day after delivering his convention floor speech.

"It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under a Donald Trump presidency," Sanders said. "Trump is the worst candidate for president in the modern history of this country."

Sanders would not personally announce Clinton's nomination later Tuesday, NBC News reported, citing sources close to the Vermont senator. Instead the Vermont delegation would nominate Clinton by unanimous consent after asking to go last in the Roll Call of States.

In another development, Clinton's campaign confirmed to NBC News that it had hired senior Sanders aide Nick Carter to reach out to progressive groups and activists and serve as Vermont state director.

Carter, Sanders' former political outreach director, becomes the most senior staffer to join Clinton's campaign.

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On Monday evening, police cited 54 people for disorderly conduct for trying to climb the barriers outside the convention center during a pro-Sanders protest that reflected the tensions inside the hall between the Vermont senator's supporters and Clinton's.

The Sanders camp was angered when a trove of hacked emails released over the weekend showed that officials at the supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primaries and worked to undermine Sanders' campaign.

Black Men for Bernie founder Bruce Carter said Monday's speeches from Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren did not persuade him to support Clinton.

"They really agitate people more every time they stand up and do the Hillary Clinton, hoo-rah hoo-rah," he said. Carter, a Dallas resident, said he doesn't fear a Donald Trump presidency: "I've lived under nine white presidents in my lifetime."

With temperatures climbing again toward the mid-90s, Chris Scully, a 28-year-old an engineer from Troy, New York, held a "Jill Before Hill" outside City Hall and said he opposes Clinton because of her war record as secretary of state.

As Scully spoke, a passer-by called out: "That's a vote for Trump!"

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Police estimated 5,500 people took part in Monday's protests. Many of the marchers chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!" and carried signs reading "Never Hillary," ''Just Go to Jail Hillary" and "You Lost Me at Hillary."